2) The Desktop Environment catch 22 seems to be continuing: KDE gets
less love since the measurable KDE using community is small, while the
measurable KDE community is small since those who heavily use KDE go
elsewhere to get their KDE fix (Kubuntu, SuSe). And with the recent
bad press, there may be a few who would like another distro to use KDE
on.

Hmm I guess you are wrong here
knowing the fact there aren't many statistics to prove me wrong, there
are a lot of Fedora KDE users around than you can imagine. If there
are many leaving fedora kde for something, It might be because fedora
doesn't love much kde and work needs to be here!
To be honest, as a fedora ambassador, I see 3 of 5 fedora installs are
KDE installs.
Chitlesh
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